limnv.

Brit.

/lɪm/, U.S.

/lɪm/

Forms: Also Middle English limyne, lymm, Middle English–1600s lymn(e, 1500s–1600s limm(e, limb(e, limne.

Etymology: Altered form of lumine v.

Now literary and archaic.

†1. transitive. To illuminate (letters, manuscripts, books). Also absol. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > written text > decoration > decorate [verb (transitive)] > illuminate

enluminec1366

lumine1387

limn14..

flourishc1440

enlimn1453

miniate1670

illuminate1706

miniature1716

illumine1717

alluminate1726

14.. Trevisa's Higden (Rolls) VII. 295 Þis bisshop hym~self schonede not to write and lumine [MS. β (early 15th c.) lymne] and bynde bookes.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 317/1 Lymnyd, as bookys (K. limynid), elucidatus.

1499 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 24 A mass boke of veln lymmyde.

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. v. sig. Cij^v Their fyrst letters to be paynted or lymned.

1534 R. Rich Let. to T. Cromwell in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. xxxiv. 179 A certain tale of M. Magdalen, delivering her a letter from heaven, that was limned with golden letters.

1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Bviij^v And if their toyes, in letters lymde Be printed once in booke.

1573 Treat. Arte of Limming (title page) Diuerse kyndes of colours to write or to limme withall vppon velym.

1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 94 When they write letters vnto anie principall person, they gilde the margent of the paper, and limbe it.

†2. To adorn or embellish with gold or bright colour; to depict in (gold, etc.). Also (rare), to lay on (colour). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [verb (transitive)] > brighten

sharpa1398

limn1548

raise1601

flash1607

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > gilding and silvering > gild and silver [verb (transitive)] > gild

overgildOE

gildOE

gilt?a1400

to paint overa1400

overgilt?a1425

engildc1475

limn1548

deaurate1562

regild1583

begild1600

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > colour [verb (transitive)] > lay on a colour

limn1548

lay1574

work1885

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxiij Images..rychely lymned wyth golde and Albyn colours.

1573 Treat. Arte of Limming (title page) How siluer or golde shalbe layed or limmed vppon the sise.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1490/1 Their bannerols being displaied and richlie limmed with my lords armes.

1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxiii. 84 The Royal Arms of Portugal were limned in Gold.

a. To paint (a picture or portrait); to portray, depict (a subject). †Formerly spec. to paint in water-colour or distemper (see limning n. 2a). †Also with forth, out.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > representation > [verb (transitive)]

depaint?c1225

paintc1275

figurec1380

resemblea1393

portraya1398

represent?a1425

impicture1523

portrait1548

shadow1553

to paint forth1558

storize1590

personate1591

limn1593

propound1594

model1604

table1607

semble1610

rendera1616

to paint out1633

person1644

present1649

to figure out1657

historize1668

to fancy out1669

to take off1680

figurate1698

refer1700

display1726

depicture1739

depict1817

actualize1848

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [verb (transitive)] > represent pictorially

figurec1380

pict1483

picture1490

describe1526

delineate1566

shadow1576

blaze1579

depicturec1593

limn1593

depaint1598

depict1631

depinge1657

picturize1796

feature1807

repicture1810

pictorialize1844

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > paint [verb (transitive)]

meteOE

depaint?c1225

paintc1275

stain1519

to paint out1553

depeinct1579

limn1593

impaint1598

pencil1610

stroke1624

depencil1631

brush1897

1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Ciij Looke when a Painter would surpasse the life, In limming out a well proportioned steed.

1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits vi. 83 Pictures, which are lymned in oyle.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 283 Nicon that famous painter of Greece..most curiously limbed forth a horsses perfection.

1622 G. Wither Faire-virtue sig. M Where Apelles limb'd to life, Loathed Vulcans louely wife.

1641 J. Milton Animadversions 50 He may be the competent Judge of a neat picture, or elegant poem, that cannot limne the like.

1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. xxxvii. 193 For there by magic skill, I wis, Form of each thing that living is Was limn'd in proper dye.

1854 M. Oliphant Magdalen Hepburn II. 55 The dim chapel..with Scripture stories limned in its ancient glass.

1866 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 335 If he be limned aright in the canvas which has descended to us.

b. transferred and figurative.

ΚΠ

1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes 30 With life and spirit to limne deadnes it selfe Hoc est Oratoris proprium.

1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida Induct. sig. B I fear it is not possible to limme so many persons in so small a tablet as the compasse of our playes afford.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 198 As mine eye doth his effigies witnesse, Most truly limn'd, and liuing in your face.

a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) iii. sig. F3 What's Beauty but a perfect white and red? Both here well mixt, limne truth so beautifull.

1645 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Bad Times iv. xxi. 240 It is easie for one to endure an affliction, as hee limnes it out in his own fancie.

1661 O. Felltham Lusoria xxxvii. 37 in Resolves (rev. ed.) He must limb spirits never tir'd.

1856 C. H. Spurgeon New Park St. Pulpit I. 56 Instances of persons going to the house of God, and having their characters limned out to perfection.

1871 S. Smiles Character x. 284 Perhaps the most complete picture of a great man ever limned in words.

1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer 130 The Odusseus is limned with..incomparable art.

4. Prov. to limn the water, limn (something) on water: said of something transient or futile.

ΚΠ

1620 F. Bacon Poems (Grosart) 49 Who then to fraile Mortality shall trust, But limmes the Water, or but writes in dust.

1692 Vindiciæ Carolinæ ix. 73 All he had done was but a kind of Limming the Water, to them.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxx. 4 A woman's words..Limn them on ebbing floods, write on a wintery gale [L. In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua].

†5. absol. or intransitive. To paint; esp. to paint in water-colour or distemper. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > paint according to medium or technique [verb (intransitive)] > watercolour or distemper

limn1594

1594 H. Plat Jewell House 44 (heading) To paint or limne with the colours that are taken from hearbs or flowers.

1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xii. 106 The vertuous Margaret Queene of Navarre beside her excellent veine in Poesie could draw and limne excellently.

1665 S. Pepys Diary 7 May (1972) VI. 98 Yesterday begun my wife to learn to Limb of one Browne.

1675 J. Crowne Countrey Wit iv. 57 Mer. Cannot you Limne, Sir? Ramb. Limne, what dost thou mean? Mer. Why Limne, Sir, draw Pictures in little.

1678 R. Cudworth tr. Xenophanes in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iii. 136 If Oxen, Lions, Horses and Asses..were able to Limn and Paint.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	limn
释义	limnv. Brit. /lɪm/, U.S. /lɪm/ Forms: Also Middle English limyne, lymm, Middle English–1600s lymn(e, 1500s–1600s limm(e, limb(e, limne. Etymology: Altered form of lumine v. Now literary and archaic. †1. transitive. To illuminate (letters, manuscripts, books). Also absol. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > decoration > decorate [verb (transitive)] > illuminate enluminec1366 lumine1387 limn14.. flourishc1440 enlimn1453 miniate1670 illuminate1706 miniature1716 illumine1717 alluminate1726 14.. Trevisa's Higden (Rolls) VII. 295 Þis bisshop hym~self schonede not to write and lumine [MS. β (early 15th c.) lymne] and bynde bookes. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 317/1 Lymnyd, as bookys (K. limynid), elucidatus. 1499 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 24 A mass boke of veln lymmyde. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. v. sig. Cij^v Their fyrst letters to be paynted or lymned. 1534 R. Rich Let. to T. Cromwell in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. xxxiv. 179 A certain tale of M. Magdalen, delivering her a letter from heaven, that was limned with golden letters. 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Bviij^v And if their toyes, in letters lymde Be printed once in booke. 1573 Treat. Arte of Limming (title page) Diuerse kyndes of colours to write or to limme withall vppon velym. 1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 94 When they write letters vnto anie principall person, they gilde the margent of the paper, and limbe it. †2. To adorn or embellish with gold or bright colour; to depict in (gold, etc.). Also (rare), to lay on (colour). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [verb (transitive)] > brighten sharpa1398 limn1548 raise1601 flash1607 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > gilding and silvering > gild and silver [verb (transitive)] > gild overgildOE gildOE gilt?a1400 to paint overa1400 overgilt?a1425 engildc1475 limn1548 deaurate1562 regild1583 begild1600 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > colour [verb (transitive)] > lay on a colour limn1548 lay1574 work1885 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxiij Images..rychely lymned wyth golde and Albyn colours. 1573 Treat. Arte of Limming (title page) How siluer or golde shalbe layed or limmed vppon the sise. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1490/1 Their bannerols being displaied and richlie limmed with my lords armes. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxiii. 84 The Royal Arms of Portugal were limned in Gold. 3. a. To paint (a picture or portrait); to portray, depict (a subject). †Formerly spec. to paint in water-colour or distemper (see limning n. 2a). †Also with forth, out. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > [verb (transitive)] depaint?c1225 paintc1275 figurec1380 resemblea1393 portraya1398 represent?a1425 impicture1523 portrait1548 shadow1553 to paint forth1558 storize1590 personate1591 limn1593 propound1594 model1604 table1607 semble1610 rendera1616 to paint out1633 person1644 present1649 to figure out1657 historize1668 to fancy out1669 to take off1680 figurate1698 refer1700 display1726 depicture1739 depict1817 actualize1848 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > [verb (transitive)] > represent pictorially figurec1380 pict1483 picture1490 describe1526 delineate1566 shadow1576 blaze1579 depicturec1593 limn1593 depaint1598 depict1631 depinge1657 picturize1796 feature1807 repicture1810 pictorialize1844 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > paint [verb (transitive)] meteOE depaint?c1225 paintc1275 stain1519 to paint out1553 depeinct1579 limn1593 impaint1598 pencil1610 stroke1624 depencil1631 brush1897 1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Ciij Looke when a Painter would surpasse the life, In limming out a well proportioned steed. View more context for this quotation 1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits vi. 83 Pictures, which are lymned in oyle. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 283 Nicon that famous painter of Greece..most curiously limbed forth a horsses perfection. 1622 G. Wither Faire-virtue sig. M Where Apelles limb'd to life, Loathed Vulcans louely wife. 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 50 He may be the competent Judge of a neat picture, or elegant poem, that cannot limne the like. 1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain iii. xxxvii. 193 For there by magic skill, I wis, Form of each thing that living is Was limn'd in proper dye. 1854 M. Oliphant Magdalen Hepburn II. 55 The dim chapel..with Scripture stories limned in its ancient glass. 1866 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 335 If he be limned aright in the canvas which has descended to us. b. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes 30 With life and spirit to limne deadnes it selfe Hoc est Oratoris proprium. 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida Induct. sig. B I fear it is not possible to limme so many persons in so small a tablet as the compasse of our playes afford. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 198 As mine eye doth his effigies witnesse, Most truly limn'd, and liuing in your face. View more context for this quotation a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) iii. sig. F3 What's Beauty but a perfect white and red? Both here well mixt, limne truth so beautifull. 1645 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Bad Times iv. xxi. 240 It is easie for one to endure an affliction, as hee limnes it out in his own fancie. 1661 O. Felltham Lusoria xxxvii. 37 in Resolves (rev. ed.) He must limb spirits never tir'd. 1856 C. H. Spurgeon New Park St. Pulpit I. 56 Instances of persons going to the house of God, and having their characters limned out to perfection. 1871 S. Smiles Character x. 284 Perhaps the most complete picture of a great man ever limned in words. 1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer 130 The Odusseus is limned with..incomparable art. 4. Prov. to limn the water, limn (something) on water: said of something transient or futile. ΚΠ 1620 F. Bacon Poems (Grosart) 49 Who then to fraile Mortality shall trust, But limmes the Water, or but writes in dust. 1692 Vindiciæ Carolinæ ix. 73 All he had done was but a kind of Limming the Water, to them. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxx. 4 A woman's words..Limn them on ebbing floods, write on a wintery gale [L. In vento et rapida scribere oportet aqua]. †5. absol. or intransitive. To paint; esp. to paint in water-colour or distemper. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to medium or technique > paint according to medium or technique [verb (intransitive)] > watercolour or distemper limn1594 1594 H. Plat Jewell House 44 (heading) To paint or limne with the colours that are taken from hearbs or flowers. 1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman xii. 106 The vertuous Margaret Queene of Navarre beside her excellent veine in Poesie could draw and limne excellently. 1665 S. Pepys Diary 7 May (1972) VI. 98 Yesterday begun my wife to learn to Limb of one Browne. 1675 J. Crowne Countrey Wit iv. 57 Mer. Cannot you Limne, Sir? Ramb. Limne, what dost thou mean? Mer. Why Limne, Sir, draw Pictures in little. 1678 R. Cudworth tr. Xenophanes in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iii. 136 If Oxen, Lions, Horses and Asses..were able to Limn and Paint. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.14..
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